The full transformation into the GCN show is complete 😂

@Afrikakorps68

3 ай бұрын

Next step: hundreds of videos on how to lube/wax your chain!!!🎉🎉🎉

@doublejumpvideogames....

3 ай бұрын

yup falling off a cliff...

@JL-sn1ee

3 ай бұрын

@@Afrikakorps68 brought to you by Muc Off sandpaper based lubricant

@vasiliipopov416

3 ай бұрын

@@Afrikakorps68 Also, new video on winter clothing and mudguards every 6 months with 0 new information whatsoever

@darrengarvie8832

3 ай бұрын

No it's better then GCN 😁

Can't be more british than using tea as a measuring scale for tan walls.

@zdravo4

3 ай бұрын

Agre 😂😂😂

That was my venge, the tyres are the GP5000 Cream Wall edition. They have since been upgraded to the 28mm version 😎. I can promise the bike is amazing to ride.

@jefflabianco4459

3 ай бұрын

Beautiful bike, always wanted one as a kid watching racing with my dad

@janjan5988

3 ай бұрын

I rated it 8.5/10 ❤ for me it looks better than the shown italian Bikes 😅

@sAmiZZle82

3 ай бұрын

They were just jealous of it

@yoepdeligt682

3 ай бұрын

Cyclepunks!

@weinoberger

3 ай бұрын

Very nice bike to ride. Although I’d agree with their rating as it’s straight off the shelf

"Its a vittoria... I know my tan-walls", doesn't recognize the Conti GP5000 pattern*

@mrbuddha5263

3 ай бұрын

Thought the same thing LOL. "I know my tan walls" Looks nothing like a vittoria. TDF GP5000.

@tarikqirem2870

3 ай бұрын

Yep, it’s my bike and you are spot on. These were when they only did the 25mm version. I’ve since replaced them with the 28mm version 😂

@lukesanders768

3 ай бұрын

I knew they weren't Vittoria, but I couldn't tell they were gp5000

Agree on do away with gender specific. There was a pink liv I wanted but they don't make those for dudes who are 6'6 in the morning and 6'5 in the evening.

@dannyphantom121

2 ай бұрын

Gender specific bikes r important bc men and women r different physically, more than just height. However, if a women's bike fits u better than ride that, if a men's bike fits u better than ride that. Just get a men's bike and paint it pink.

Dropper especially the short dropper post is the drunks best friend. Your butt never has to leave the seat. Hit the dropper at lights and you are still seated. Hit the lever to come back up after you are across the intersection. Easy

@yoavmiller216

3 ай бұрын

Generally speaking, droppers are made for junctions- things you come across no matter where you ride, unlike hills. And track stands are nice if your'e a circus employee.

@LaurentiusTriarius

3 ай бұрын

​@@yoavmiller216 daily dose of copium...😂

@omegaPhix

3 ай бұрын

​@@yoavmiller216Or you can just put a foot on the ground?

@johnnunn8688

3 ай бұрын

@@omegaPhixyou’ve obviously never ridden a bike drunk. The ground is to be avoided at all costs.

Waiting for someone to submit their decathlon £800 bike and justly get 10/10 😉

@DatPenguin97

2 ай бұрын

I have to submit my proper Frankenbike and see what that conversation sounds like 😂

Those skinwalls are Continental GP5000 Tour De France Special Edition that use a lighter hue than normal Continental tyres. Also look at the tread. Call me a tyre nerd! 😂😂

@zedddddful

3 ай бұрын

Nerd 🤓 I like the tyres too.

@maxlloyd3740

3 ай бұрын

@@zedddddful 😂😂

@tarikqirem2870

3 ай бұрын

I can confirm you are correct, it’s my bike 😂

@maxlloyd3740

3 ай бұрын

@@tarikqirem2870 Thanks! Great looking bike by the way! 👍

I have a Carrera Crossfire 2 which I use to commute. I appreciate the suspension because the potholes en route are cavernous and in order to use/access the short & pitiful bike lanes, you have to traverse curbs and stretches of pavement that feel like riding a jackhammer. Nice video Edit: Yes, the triple is awful

I enjoyed that. Kinda like an in depth GCN bike vault without all the judgement on how the picture has been taken! Bit harsh on the specialised I thought. They were Conti GP5000's TdF special edition tyres, in case you were wondering. Listed as "cream" side walls.

@Vixen1525

3 ай бұрын

I mean Gcn are real hypocrits, when it comes to that in general, which is why I can not take them serious apart from other things

@Bradbajc

3 ай бұрын

you sure it wasnt a specialized or vittoria? lol

@mrflaxtv81

3 ай бұрын

@@Bradbajc eh?

The guy with the Venge must be slitting his wrists now that the Halfords Carrera got marked at the same rating! 😬

@tarikqirem2870

3 ай бұрын

I’ll be ok 😂

@truthseeker8483

3 ай бұрын

@@tarikqirem2870Are you going to buy a Halfords Carrera?😅

@tarikqirem2870

3 ай бұрын

@@truthseeker8483 I’m hoping to find someone who is willing to swap one for my venge!

@LuukeyB

3 ай бұрын

@@tarikqirem2870 If it makes you feel any better, your bike is my dream bike and I’d give it a 10/10! 👌

@silverchet

3 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with a Carrera mate.

One of the fastest 20 minutes I’ve ever experienced

The Bianchi reminds me of my Argon 18. Bought it, turned out the components were shot. But I replaced everything with 105 and I love it. Similar weight, wouldn't trade it either. There's something about working on a bike that makes you connected to it.

My dad has a bike that I think you may appreciate. 1990s Colnago Master Piu, fluted columbus steel tubing, original purple and gold livery, build up with Dura Ace 7800. It is quite simply, *stunning*. However it currently in pieces in the loft and I need to find a way to get it back on the road. Edit: should add it's not been left to rust. It's lovingly wrapped up and protected for when it will ride again. We put it up there when we did a load of work to the house but haven't had a chance (or space) to rebuild it yet

@charlcoetzee93

3 ай бұрын

Get to work!

@lysanatt

3 ай бұрын

Oh gods, please give it some love and care and get it back on the road!

Those old wheels are 27”. It was an odd size and I had trouble getting tires even 20 years ago. However the ones that I could find were 1-1/4” knobby tires which are quite similar to gravel ties now. So they were far ahead of their time. But it also means that a lot of those frames are kinda junk today as the brakes are set up for those wheels and it’s hard to even fit a new 700c set of wheels.

@kgramckow

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I’ve had a couple old 27” wheel frames. Surprisingly I could still buy new 27 tires last year (somewhat terrible hard “commuter” 27/1.25) but yeah that was probably very old stock. Most of them seem to work with 700c tires if you buy long reach brakes, and I had to drill out the brake mounting points to fit the recessed nut type brakes. After spreading the rear triangle from 126mm to 130 you can put new drivetrain stuff on it. Voila, dirt cheap road/urban/lock it up in a city bike.

@johnnunn8688

3 ай бұрын

It’s a fixy, no need for brakes 🤷‍♂️.

@DatPenguin97

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, 635mm. Have fun searching the Internet for 27" tyres because of 27.5 😂

@Vixen1525

18 күн бұрын

Why don't you try to get 27.5 mtb wheels for it?

Venge is still the best looking bike ever.

Its like the tea you don't want to drink 😂 pure gold from Jimmi 👌

11:40 you mean 27". Standard on most bikes up until mid-'80s

@arthor675somthing

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, 630mm instead of 622mm on a 700c. That caught me out the first time I worked on a mate's bike 😂

@johndoiron9615

3 ай бұрын

I had a 1987 Schwinn that had those.

Have you just teabagged the tanned walls 😂

I'm happy with my Decathlon RS500 Low Frame (Sporty Omafiets) for daily 35 km commute haha.

would love to see more of these!!! awesome stuff

Love this new format!

poor Venge boi lo!! keep this segment going!

@tarikqirem2870

3 ай бұрын

I’ll be fine, I love my bike 😂😎

Amazed at the amount of forward saddle tilt going on here. Guys must be carryin' a lot of junk.

That is a fun format guys! Keep the good-fun-happy-cycling-work, yeaaah ! Love to your team !

A good bike is one that makes you feel like you want to go for a ride because you're confident that it will reliably get you to where you want to go safely and in relative comfort. I see a lot of cheaper bikes that seem to fill these requirements even though they might lack many of the questionable features that are being marketed on top end bikes.

Everytime you guys were saying ‘’tan walls’’ I was hearing: Tamoul 🤣

I'm not a specialized geek but the venge was the best looking Bike in my opinion ❤

What a great way to do this sort of video!

With my short ADHD attention span I watched the whole segment without looking out the window, tabbing off to another page, or playing with my phone. So well done guys on a fun segment. Look an squirrel! Chels c:

Loved that, do more pls

Surprised you didn't mention/catch the fact that the owner of the first bike only had a bottle cage on the seat tube, which looks completely unhinged to me

@MxCraven

3 ай бұрын

If you carry your bike often that's the best option. It's where most CX racers put theirs for the warmer races. It also stays a bit cleaner when you're in the mud

@johnbienaszii7729

3 ай бұрын

I do that with my down tube . The seat looks like a great alternative

@LorenzoEnzooey

3 ай бұрын

I mean, its pretty unusual but its pretty common

Good take on the whole rate my ride thing, but you could go one up and do a bring people in and have a ride and rate each other’s ride

Loved this!

Simon, you legend! My type of guy. Good luck on your triathlon 👍

It is amazing to think that with all the frame and parts and accessory options, new or old or a combination of the two, each of us creates a bike unlike anyone else's and that's no disrespect to owners who chose to keep their high-dollar bikes stock and ready to rock. And thanks for this show, really fun to see what everyone is riding, tho' I do think if a bike is submitted with a love letter about it, at least two relationship points should be added to your judgment of its attributes and aesthetic. 😀

Steel Fugios are awesome. I love mine and the dropper is a game changer for offroad. Built mine from a frameset to avoid the stock wheels which are pretty crappy.

My kind of bike critique, no of that gcn nonsense 👏🏼

Enjoyed that, might stick mine in especially once the bits that are in the post get here.... its gotta be closer to the cinelli than the venge - I hope 😅

Hahaha, can confirm that the FSA chainring on Topstones are melted cheese (bent mine a ton). Also the offset/chainline was mis-spec-ed for the GRX front mech, such that you got tons of chain-rub.

I love this episode :D Will send you my 80's Mendiz when I finish the build :D Should be somewhere next week :) Hope you'll take it in to the vid :)

Will there be another one of these?

Thank you for using more of the scale than just 7.5-10!

Dropper in beasty gravel is a must

Can't wait for the next episode of the 'Rate My Saddle Sore' video series.

@LaurentiusTriarius

3 ай бұрын

Padding is overrated.

If Francis stays up long enough, he ends up being an Owl 👀

A dropper is not good for "getting the seat out of the way" it's better for getting the seat in a climbing position/flat straightaway position. If you lower the saddle but rest all your weight on it.....your center of gravity is at the seat. If you slightly lift off the Saddle , your main weight position is at the pedals for handling of the bike. I agree about that suspension, it doesn't do a lot and most times they weight about the same as a Rock Shox Boxxer. You would have more fun with the 200mm downhill fork :)

I’ve got Carrera Crossfire 1 that I bought for £250 in 2016 (since then it’s had a new gearset, wheels, and brakes). I recently did a 3 day loop of London to Bristol - circa 280 miles. The suspension is heavy and pointless like they mentioned, and the flat handle bars suck after about 70k but I’m happy that bike got a run around and even if now I’m looking to replace it with a gravel bike. I could never get rid of it

That vigorelli, with the spacers and that seatpost height, could easily size up

I had an aluminum topstone that came with wobbly cranks, cassette and chain rings. great bike otherwise but what the eff?

I am curious to know if you have a nice standard Alluminum base (nothing over the top) and you change the gears and anything else related to speed aside from the aero, can you have a really fast normal bike or no?

This was great

And the reason the bike industry is awash in debt, is they have been falsely promoting a false narrative of 'Pimp my Ride' for the last 10 years. Karma can be cruel.

Good format - I could be tempted to send in a bike for rating!

I appreciate your sensible rating scale

My first triathlon was on a borrowed Specialised Rockhopper MTB, with clapped out off road tyres, flat pedals, and I can barely swim. Now I have a Giant TCX and I can still barely swim...

@lysanatt

3 ай бұрын

This is how it's done. Had a Rockhopper A1 that was specc'd out with all the spare top end gear I had from racing, rode as messenger for several years on it, until some ****head stole it. Best. Bike. Ever. (Apart from my Klein Adroid, but that was in an entirely different league - in a different universe.) Also there should be capital punishment for people who steal bikes.

@PhilOsGarage

3 ай бұрын

Same. I’m planning on doing an aqua bike event later this year, I’m hoping the wetsuit will somehow turn me into an epic swimmer 😅

@samgraham4168

3 ай бұрын

@@PhilOsGarage it helped me marginally not drown...

"If you remove the sticker the paint comes off" lolol

6:48 is gp500as I think by pattern and wall color

Albany cycles is my LBS, great team of lads in there it was nice to hear their name on here ❤

I never understand y people hate on droppers on bikes they dont own. I use a dropper on my cx commuter for comfy, safer breaks at stop lights and to fit in my gf sedan when i meet her at her job (20 ish miles away) to go out and eat and drive back. It prevents me from having to take off my seatpost everytime and ruining its saved position and alignment. Plus nicer to sit on a bike and warm up out of the parking lot when its slammed, luxury

You need a bell 😂.... wish I sent one of mine in....

Continental calls it cream!

Jimmi knows what time to drop a post.

1st bike up, Genesis with the dropper post. Is that for after the punts to aid getting on the bike 😂

@damienmcgettrick4399

3 ай бұрын

* pints

"Vintage wheel size", haha. 27" is what I grew up with. 700c is the "new-fangled" size for me!

@HoloScope

2 ай бұрын

lol same

Third bike is conti gt5000 cream sidewall noobs!

Yay!

Guys not even able to spot the tyre manufacturers ‚roasting‘ bike setups 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Ok, I'll get a pic and you can roast my silly bike.

that venge has conti gp5k cream tire

Turned off when we're rating immaculate venges at 5 😥

Shame i missed this, would have posted my old Favorit branded bike.

once upon a time I rode a 61cm frame, I now ride a 54/56. I'm 6'6"

My road bike I bought in the 80's has that odd size of rims. trying to put a trainer tire on was an hour long fight(ending in failure). I ended up buying a new wheel.

Damn i should have sent you my Santa Cruz Nomad.. Jimmy's head would explode!

How do we submit our rides for you to roast?

Where can we post our rides for future roasts?

Cannondale's typeface is not Helvetica, look at the heel of the "a". It's a font called Favorit.

Yup. Smells like GCN. But I still love it

FSA cranks aren't even made of melted cheese - playdough™ at best!

Jimmy, before they were banned pros used "spinnachi" bars at the front of the bunch. What do you mean when you say "sick"? Guys, what is it with the tan sidewalls? Whats wrong with "round and black"? Francis, you mean 27inch wheels. Pity you guys don't read the comments you ask for.

@geomonkey

3 ай бұрын

Tan "Cream" walls for the win!! Especially on a 5/10 rated Venge

Think you guys need to go to a uk local tri and see some of the bikes in transitions you get everything you can imagine

I can only assume that the ‘weird’ almost 700c wheel size is actually 27x11/4”…which was on ALL bikes,pre.1970’s up until 700c took over ,which was the same size as tubulars.😂 Nothing weird there!

Tea spectrum: Panaracer sidewalls are either black or 茶 (cha; i.e., tea)

6:55 Continental 😭

Time to start a new series, "Roasting Cade Media's Video Lengths" >:)

I know it's not really in your wheelhouse but please please do a ride and dive on a tern orox. Really like to hear your response to this beast. edit: Thought this was a great video liked the format.

I would not be generous for anything close to normal🤷🏼‍♂️ Love this👍

1:08 Francis is correct here

Jimmy gotta emphasize that “t” in rate because it sounded like something else to me 😂

The topstone was nicer than 7, especially better than the genesis imo.

You lost me when you rated the prettiest bike of all time, the Venge, as a 5/10.

@lysanatt

3 ай бұрын

Because everybody has to have the same taste as you? The Venge was nothing but boring.

@dmitry.gashko

3 ай бұрын

​@@lysanatt And that's why it's the best

@AmateurDead

3 ай бұрын

The Venge is cringe af

@jwfriar

3 ай бұрын

@@AmateurDead “Cringe AF” - what are you in high school? Can you use your big kid words?

@janjan5988

3 ай бұрын

The venge looks the best out of these Bikes❤ looks so mich better to me than the old italian Bikes😂

Cinelli's XCR is a beautifully sculpted iron machine. What organ do I need to sell to get a really nice one?

I will not stand for any slander of the Venge of any sort

Carrera do do a bike called the subway, which has a alloy fork. Probably a great bike

Funny size historic tyres are probably 27x1(inches)

I'd love to send a couple of my bikes in, where can I se when it's happening again?

The GIANT on the blue cinellie 1 x 12 with deep dish carbon rims. How is he getting away running 24 spoke wheels

Steel is real. That SS would get an 8 from me

Why I didn't know about this video that you were going to make? I would've send you a picture of my bicycle which is an almost complete chinese and second hand build. Just for roasting purposes.